Process of and apparatus for obtaining nickel from nickel-carbonyl



Patented July 5, I898.

L. mun. PROCESS OF AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING NICKEL FROM NICKEL-CABBONYL.

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Nb. 606,843 Patented July 5, I898.

v mono. PROCESS OF AND APPARATUS FOB OBTAINING NICKEL FROIII NICKEL-CARBUNYL.

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UNITED STATE ATENT Enron.

LUDVVIG MOND, OF- LONDON, ENGLAND.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,843, dated July 5, 1898.

Application filed January 21, 1898:. $erial No. 667,435. (no model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUDWIG MON1),residing at No. 20 Avenue road, Regents Park, in the city of London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Processes of and Apparatus for Obtaining Metallic Nickel from Nickel-Carbonyl, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means of obtaining metallic nickle from nickel-carbonyl in the form of pellets, which are specially suitable in the production of nickelalloys. For this purpose I pass gases containing nickel-carbonyl such as are obtained as described in my United States Patent No. 455,227, of June 30, 1891, through nickel in the form of shot or granules or small fragments, which are kept at the temperature required for the decomposition of the carbonyl, about 200 oentigrade. The nickel which thus separates from carbonyl becomes deposited on the shot or granules, which consequently increase in size. In order to prevent cohesion of the shot or granules,I keep them all in motion. When a number of the pellets have acquired convenient size, they are. separated by sifting without interrupting the depositing operation, the smaller pellets being returned to receive deposit from nickel-carbonyl.

A convenient form of apparatus for effecting the process described is shown in the accompanying drawings.

Figures 1 and 2 are vertical sections on planes at right angles to each other; Fig. 3, a plan; Fig. 4, a horizontal section taken at Al 4 on Fig. 1, and'Fig. 5 a side elevation showing the arrangement of' flues for externally heating the apparatus.

A is a cylindricalvesselpreferably built up of short cylinders a a,bolted together. It

, contains a central tube 0, provided with holes 0, through which the gas containing nickelcarbonyl, entering at the gas-inlet B, passes into the vessel which is'filled with pellets, shot, or small fragments of nickel. The gas permeates through the interstices between these pellets andis brought into intimate contact with them, becoming decomposed and depositing nickel on them, the gases finally es- 5o capingethrough the outlets L into the gasexit pipe M; In order to prevent the pellets from being caused to cohere by the deposited nickel, they are all kept slowly moving by continuously withdrawing some of the pellets from the bottom of the cylindrical vessel A by means of a right and left handed worm conveyer U, which delivers the pellets into two sifting-drums N. The smaller pellets fall onto the inclined plane \V and collect at the base of'the elevator E,lwhich conveys them again to the top of the cylinder A and feeds them through thefeeding-hole X. The pellets which are too large to pass through the holes in the screens N are carried by the larger worms U to channels U and fall onto an inclined plane, whence they pass into the nickelcollecting chamber Z through a valved opening G". I The nickel is from time to time removed from. this chamber Z without interfering with the working of the apparatus by closing the valve G by the rack g, pinion g,

and external handle 9 and opening the door T. By opening the screw-slide by means of the handle 3 all the nickel can be withdrawn from the apparatus. .The worm c011- veyer U U and elevator E are driven by suitable gearing from pulleys S. b

To prevent choking of the gas inlet and outlet holes and to permit-of the free entrance and exitof the gas, deflecting-surfaces a and c are arranged on the inside of each section aand on the outside of thecentral tube 0 immediately over the gas-outlets L and gas-inlets O.

In-order to avoid thedeposit of nickel from the nickel-carbonyl in the central tube 0, this is kept cool by causing water to circulate down the tube F and up through passages F, formed in the centraltube, to the water-outlet F The cylindrical vesselA is surrounded-by a Wrought-iron casing Q,which'forms' heating-spaces H, communicating with; heatingfiues P, so arranged that the temperature of each cylinder 0! can be separately regulated by the dampers D, so asto maintain the temperature of the nickel pellets contained in the vessel A at about 200 centigrade, at which temperature the nickel-carbonyl isdecomposed.

In order to. ascertain whether the cylinder Ais full of pellets, a rod R is -fiXed; to the spindle of an external handle R, which can be turned partly around, so that the operator by feeling resistance to the motion of the rod R knows that the pellets extend to that height.

I claim- 1. The herein-described process of separating metallic nickel from nickel-carbonyl, which consists in passing gases containing nickel-carbonyl through interstices between heated pellets or small pieces of niekel,whereby the carbonyl is decomposed and the nickel deposited on said pellets, and slowly moving the said pellets to keep them from cohering, substantially as described.

In apparatus for separating metallic nickel from nickel-carbonyl, the combination of a Vessel for receiving nickel pellets or frag ments, means for heating said vessel, a perforated tube extended into the vessel for in- Witnesses:

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